So I have stepped a few steps forward on this modular project.
In the start of june me and my girlfriend went for a month worth of interrailing in europe, so I did not get anything done, but since we got home I have been hard at work on my modular!

I'll start off with some pictures:

First: the final design of my panels! This is a moog size aluminum panel with a self adhesive paper covered with matte spray laquer as front face. I've tried lots of stuff to make it look nice and be durable, but this is by far the best I have come up with.

This is my case under construction:

And here it is more or less done:

The case will be covered with black tolex and metal corners, very much like the arp 2600. The little panel next to the keyboard will be for CV and Gate connectors, MIDI in and portamento control. Maybe I'll throw in a knob for modulation too, for performance.

I've got a little over 20 PCBs to populate and make panels for now. With the real estate of the case it's gonna be a lot of fun to put them together and start actually playing this instrument!
I've ordered the tolex and it is on its way, so soon I'll have the final design of the case. Can't wait to see the result!

Hi guys I am new here I am also building a yusynth but was a few problem with the people who cut the metal so looks like a modular but more like a korg ms20 look here a picture the bottom part has a 8 step basic analog sequencer also will have midi support will have a joystick and about 4 vco ms20 and ms 50 filter I have made the boards but not completed as this will be my winter project you can view more stuff at my website if you like http://www.analog-synth.com

Assembly has been very straight forward. Yves diagrams are easy to follow and have very few flaws. Thanks a lot for that, Yves!

The synth sounds totally awesome and I can't wait to get a sequencer and more effects in it. I have a MFOS 8-pole phaser pcb waiting to get populated. I'm planning some kind of delay too, maybe I'll design something around the PT2399 with CV.

Anyway, building yusynth is so much fun! Thank you Yves for making it so much fun!

So I got around to taking some nice pictures of my modular synth. It's pretty close to what I drew in sketchup about a year ago, actually much nicer.

What you see is where I'm at right now. 10 modules have been made, and I have 20 more to fit in there. Some of them will be double the width, as you see in the bottom right corner. That's gonna be the MFOS stereo panning mixer with line and headphone out. I'm gonna make at least two half width panels too with multiples.

My modular project has been on hold for a while, had a lot of work to do. But now it's summer time and I got time to solder and make panels again! So beginning next week I'll be continuing the process of making!

So that's what I have to sink my teeth into the following couple of weeks.
The modular case will probably be about 75% full when I'm done.

I have plans to change my keyboard control panel to the left of my keyboard to a X/Y joystick that puts out CV. Would be cool for controlling stuff in a more complex way. All my MIDI to CV will be put behind a panel instead and have multiples built in. I'm also planning on putting an arduino midi arpeggiator into my modular, and also some kind of arduino sequencer.

I also really want to build the Yusynth wave folder and saw animator, and the quad LFO, max min and comparators seem useful aswell. We'll see what I can fit in there when I get so far.

I recently purchased a Microbrute to go along with the rest of my synths. I really enjoy it, and I find the filter quite different from the steiner parker I built for my modular. The DIY one is way more brutal and harsh when I drive the input hard, and the microbrute filter is way more controlled at high resonance settings. Although they being the same filter design I really like that they behave quite differently.

I've just read this thread from the beginning (new in town). What a great build! It looks fantastic, Sebastian. I have a number of Yves' designs on my "to consider" list. I think they may be moving very quickly to the "to do" list!

I've just read this thread from the beginning (new in town). What a great build! It looks fantastic, Sebastian. I have a number of Yves' designs on my "to consider" list. I think they may be moving very quickly to the "to do" list!

Thank you so much! I'm stoked about the way it turned out. I finished the MFOS stereo panning mixer yesterday and it came out pretty great.

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